Long weekends are a killer

gpk says:

10:06am | 06/10/09

When you turn on your wipers, wipe 10 ks off your speed. And, when you merge infront of someone, leave them a suitable re-actionary gap. Its not that hard!

mvdr says:

10:55am | 06/10/09

These days, an increasing number of people think it’s cool to merge or change lanes without indicating. I had to drive on the F3 over the long weekend and I could not understand why people do that in a 110 km/ph stretch. No wonder the F3 ia hazard prone due to these reckless drivers.

Bob says:

11:28am | 06/10/09

I regularly drive interstate and can clock up to 5,000 km per month. On long weekends I fly because I will not put my life at risk because of the number of occasional country drivers doing crazy things. The worse the weather the more likely to see risky behaviour. “Oh, I can’t see, go faster then!” Or, “Lets pass 10 cars at once!”

I think for some any car trip longer than it takes to get to work is more than they can take and they get impatient and will speed up and pass in the most ridiculous places. If I get caught in traffic I will pull over at the first safe opportunity and wait till it clears. I’ve never seen anyone handing out trophies for being first. My prize is turning up to visit my family in something other than an ambulance.

Michael says:

02:12pm | 06/10/09

What I don’t understand is the people who don’t keep left when not overtaking, Am I the only one that notices that most of the traffic sits in the middle and right lane ? I’ve actually started passing people on the left, its like everyone is doing the opposite of what the sign asks.

Amy says:

03:07pm | 06/10/09

Michael, I agree completely. The road rules say “keep left”.  It is not the responsibility of the individual road users to control the speed of other drivers (whether raining or not) - often by reducing their speed in the outside lanes or deliberately matching their speed to the car next to them to prevent overtaking. Driving at the same speed across all lanes means that you’re preventing the natural flow of traffic, which can prompt some drivers to drive too close - a much more dangerous situation than moving over to the correct lane and allowing other drivers to pass.

Voxpop says:

05:05pm | 06/10/09

Michael and Amy - I agree.  But I think these fools are just bad drivers that are not able to confidently merge into traffic - you’ll find they’re the same folk that try to merge onto a freeway doing 80km instead of speeding up to merge fluenlty with traffic at 110km.  They stay in the right lane just in case they need to overtake, they cannot seem to handle moving in and out of traffic and are effectively just moving road blocks.  I will admit to tailgating and flashing my lights to ‘ask’ them to move over but I do it carefully as these useless ‘drivers’ are more than likely that hopeless or nasty that they’ll slam on the brakes.

Elbogrease says:

06:49pm | 06/10/09

I agree with Michael Amy and Vox absolutely